Armor-winding machine



H. HANSEN.

ARMOR WINDING MACHINE.

APPLICATION FILED 0cT.3.1919.

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ARMOR WINDING MACHINE.

- APPLICATION FILED OCT. 3. 1919.

1 ,396, 1 97. Patented Nov. 8, 1921.

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oRK, ASSIGNOR TO YORK, A CORPORATION on NE YORK.

EASTERN TUBE & TOOL COM- ARMOR-WIN DING MACHINE.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Nov. 8, 1921.

Application filed October 3, 1919. Serial No. 328,241.

T 0 all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, HANS subject of the King of Norway, and a resident of Maspeth, State of New Yor new and useful HANSEN, a

county of Queens, and k, have invented certain Improvements in Armor- Winding Machines, of which the following is a specification,

thereof.

reference accompanymg drawlngs,

being had to the forming a part such machines as tofore, and to pro pensive machine w tions and which may be have been available herevide a simple and inexhlch 1s eificlent 1n operaused for wlndlng armor onto an insulated wire or into a flexible tube.

to describe the same in the following specification and then point out the novel features thereof in appended claims.

Referring to the Figure 1 is a central tion of a machine drawings:

sectional front elevamade according to and embodying my invention.

Fig. 2 1s a plan ratus.

Fig. 3 is a secti view of the same appaonalelevation of a portion of the machine with a wire or mandrel running through it and with a the completed arm portion of or shown in section.

Fig. 4 is an enlarged sectional elevation through the crimp Like characters corresponding ing rolls.-

of reference designate parts in all the figures.

1O designates the side frames of the machine to which is affixed a cross frame 11 and a top 12. A saddle bracket 13 is fastened to the cross a bearing 14 for frame and this supports a shaft 15. Another bearing 16 for thisshaft is secured to one of the side fram bracket on the pulleys '17 and 18. to the other endof A hollow spindl es and outside of this shaft are fast and loose A bevel car 19 is affixed this sha t. e 20 runs through. bearings in the saddle bracket 13 and in the cross frame 11.

Splined to it is a bevel gear 21 which meshes with gear 19 on the underside thereof.

22 is a grooved'collar secured to this spindle below the saddle bracket. The fork gage this collar.

ed ends of a lever 23 en- The leve .is pi oted at .reel.

24 in a bearing which depends from the saddle bracket. To its other end is connected an adjusting rod 25. The upper end of the adjusting rod is threaded and provided with a nut 27 supported against vertical movement in a forked bracket 26 affixed to one of the side frames, by means of whlch the vertical position of the hollow splindle 20 may be raised or lowered manua y.

30 is another bevel gear aflixed to the hollow pedestal 31 of a rotary table 32. This gear meshes with the upper part of gear 19. The periphery of the table 32 is circular and is guided by rollers 33 suitably mounted in the frame top 12; The center of the rotary table is bored to receive the hub 34 of a reel core 35 which is mounted to rotate as the strip 53 is wound off. Theflanges of the reel are designated by 36. 37 1s a ball bearing interposed between the under flange 36 and the rotary table 32.

Mounted on the rotary table 32 is a stand 40 to which is hinged at 41 a supporting frame 42 in which are rotatably mounted a pair of crimping rolls 43, one of which is vertically adjustable in relation to the other.

In the stand 40 is a slidable bolt 44 which is arranged to engage a slot 38 in the edge of the lower reel flange 36.

50 is a grooved guide sheave pivotally mounted in a bearing 51 depending from the saddle bracket 13 and holding the sheave in such a position that a wire or cable 52 may be led from a reel (not shown), up through the center of the hollow spindle 20. The metallic strip which is to be wound onto this wire or into a flexible tube, is designated by 53 and the finished armor by 54.

The operation of this apparatus is as follows he crimping roll frame is first swung down about its hinges into the position in which it is shown in dotted lines at 42 and the bolt 44 moved into the slot 38. Then when shaft 15 is rotated, the reel will be driven through gears 19 and 30, table 32 and bolt 44, about the spindle 20 which then rotates idly in the opposite direction as it is driven by gears 19. and 21. This rotation of the reel is utilized for the purpose of winding up a desired amount of flat metal strip onto the After this, the bolt 44 is moved out Of fillgagement with the reel flange and the stand 42 raised to its upright position. Then the strip 53 is passed under the lower crlmpmg roller 43, and between it and the upper one and led to the upper end of the spindle 20 and to the wire 52 where it projects through the spindle. The crimping rollers are brought together so that they bend the strip 53 transversely into some such shape as that shown at 58 in Fig. 4;. The wire 52 is usually covered with a suitable insulation.

As the machine is driven the reel and crimping rollers will rotate in one direction and the spindle in the opposite direction. Successive layers of the strip will overlap about one-half the width of the strip and this will cause the finished armor to advance due to the fact that the center or crimpedportion of the strip 53 will continually wedge itself, during the winding movement, between the upper end of the spindle 20 and the lower edge of the preceding convolution of the strip. Where it is wound around a wire, it will grip the wire on its insulating cover and cause it to advance. The rotation of the spindle prevents the strip from gripping it or sticking.

The vertical position'of spindle 20 may be adjusted in a manner previously described, .to vary the position of the point of winding relatively to that of the crimping rolls to thereby get the desired relative position of successive convolutions of the winding and to obtain the desired amount of overlap.

When the machine is used to make a flexible armored tube, the wire is omitted and the spindle adjusted until the desired amount of overlap is obtained.

While I have shown and described the machine as built and operated with the spindle 20 in a vertical position, this is in no way essential and I do not intend to limit myself to this or any other specific detail of construction. In fact, I intend no limitations other than those imposed in the followin claims.

hat I claim is:

1. An armor winding machine comprising a rotary spindle, a rotary disk concentric with the spindle, a strip reel rotatively mounted in axial alinement with the spindle,

means for driving the. spindle and the disk in opposite directions, and a pair of strip crimping rolls adapted to have fixed or moving relation with said reel and mounted to travel with the disk.

2. An armor winding machine comprising a rotary spindle, a rotary disk concentric with the spindle, a strip reel rotatively mounted thereon in axial alinement with the spindle, means for driving the spindle and the disk' in oppositedirections, apair of'strip crimping rolls adapted to have fixed or moving' relation with said reel and mounted to travel with said disk around the spindle and means for adjusting the spindle longitudinally in relationtosaid crimping rolls.

3; An armor winding machine comprising a rotary spindle, a rotary disk concentric with said spindle, a strip reel rotatively mounted thereon in axial alinement with the spindle, means for driving the spindle and the disk in opposite directions, a frame pivotally connected with said disk, a pair of strip crimping rolls mounted in said frame, and means for locking the disk and the reel together.

4-. An armor winding machine comprising a rotary spindle, a rotary disk concentric with said spindle, a strip reel having flanges, said reel being rotatively mounted on said disk, means for driving the spindle and the disk in opposite directions, a stand affixed to said disk, a frame pivoted to said stand, a pair of strip crimping rolls mounted in said frame, and a bolt in said stand slidable into engagement with one of said reel flanges. I

5. An armor winding machine comprising a rotary spindle, a rotary disk concentric with said spindle, a strip reel havingflanges, said reel being rotatively mounted on said disk, means for driving the spindle and the disk in opposite directions, a frame connected with the disk beyond the peripheries of the reel flanges, and .a pair of strip crimping rolls with their axes parallel to each other and normal to that of the spindle, mounted to travel with said disk around the spindle and adapted to havefixed or moving relation with the reel.

6. An armor winding machine comprising a rotary spindle, a rotary disk concentric with said spindle, a strip reel having flanges, said reel being rotatively mounted on said disk, means for driving'the spindle and the disk in opposite directions, a frame connected with the disk beyond the peripheries of the reel flanges, a pair of strip crimping rolls with their axes parallel to each other and normal to that of the spindle, mounted to travel with said disk around the spindle and adapted to be held in fixed relation with the flanges of said reel, means for-adjusting the relative positions ofsaid rollsand means for adjusting the'spindle longitudinally in relation to said crimping rolls.

' 7. An armor winding machine comprising a hollow rotary spindle, a rotary disk concentric with said spindle, a strip reel r0tatively mounted thereon, means for. driving the spindle and the disk in opposite directlons, and a pair of strip crimping rolls mounted outside of the reel and arranged to travel around the reel or to be held in fixed relation therewith. I

8. An armor winding machine comprising a hollow rotary spindle, a rotary disk concentr c with said spindle, a strip reelrotatively mounted thereon, means for leading and means for locking the disk and the reel a wire through said spindle, means for drlvtogether.

mg the spindle and the disk in opposite 10. An armor winding machine comprisdirections, a pair of strip crimping rolls inga rotary spindle, arotary disk concentric mounted to travel with said disk around the with said spindle, a strip reel having flanges, 30 reel and to lead strip material from the reel one of said flanges being provided with a to the spindle, means for adjusting the spinnotch, means for leading a wire through the dle longitudinally in relation to said crimpspindle, the center of said disk being proing rolls and means for locking the disk and vided with a bOre adapted to rotatively supthe reel together. port a portion of the strip reel, means for 35 9. An armor winding machine comprising driving the spindle and the disk in opposite a hollow rotary spindle, a rotary disk condirections, a stand aflixed to said disk beyond centric with said spindle, a strip reel having the peripheries of the reel flanges, a frame flanges, said reel being rotatively mounted pivoted to said stand, a pair of strip crimpon said disk, means for leading a wire ing rolls mounted in said frame with their 40 through said spindle, means for driving the axes parallel to each other and normal to spindle and the disk in opposite directions, that of the spindle, means for adjusting the a frame pivotally connected with the disk relative positions of said rolls, means for adbeyond the peripheries of the reel flanges, a justing the spindle longitudinally in relation pair of strip crimping rolls with their axes to send crimping rolls and a bolt in said 45 parallel to each other and normal to that of stand slidable into engagement with the the spindle, mounted, in said frame, means notch in one of said reel flanges. for adjusting the relative positions of said In witness whereof, I have hereunto set rolls, means for adjusting the spindle lon my hand this 2nd day of October, 1919. tudinally in relation to said crimping r0 ls HANS HANSEN. 

